Abba Gorgoryos
Abba Gorgoryos(Ge'ez:አባ ጎርጎርዮስ; 1595 – 1658) was an Ethiopian priest from Amhara tribe and lexicographer of noble origin.[3][4][5][6]He is famous for co-authoring encyclopedias with his friend and companionHiob Ludolfin two Ethiopian languages,AmharicandGe'ez,both inGe'ez script.[7]
Life
[edit]Abba Gorgoryos was born inMekane SellasieinAmhara Province.He was invited toGothain 1652 by Ludolf, who at the time was in the service ofErnest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha.[7]Ludolf and the Duke were interested about Ethiopia and prepared a list of queries which were presented to Abba Gorgoryos. The Duke took particular interest in the legend ofPrester John,while Ludolf was interested in Christianity in Ethiopia and the teaching of theEthiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.The findings of Ludolf are included in his workTheologica aethiopica.[8]
Abba Gorgoryos worked with Hiob Ludolf in co-authoring the earliest grammar of theAmhariclanguage, as well as an Amharic-Latin dictionary, which became the first African language to be translated to Latin. Ludolf's bookA History of Ethiopiawas based in part on Abba Gorgoryos's conceptualization of Ethiopia and letters.[9]Abba Gorgoryos also developed a Ge'ez lexicon.
On his return journey to Ethiopia in 1658, he died in a shipwreck off the Turkish city ofİskenderun.
References
[edit]- ^College Library, Special Collections."Hiob Ludolf, Historia Aethiopica (Frankfurt, 1681)".St John's College, Cambridge.Accessed 29 July 2017.
- ^Prichard, James Cowles(1851),Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind,vol. 2 (4th ed.), London: Houlston and Stoneman, p. 139.
- ^"Faith Over Color: Ethio-European Encounters and Discourses in the Early-Modern Era. Philadelphia: Temple University Electronic Theses and Dissertations".cdm2458-01.cdmhost.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-08-04.Retrieved2016-06-13.
- ^Uhlig, Siegbert. 2005. "Gorgoryos." In Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha: Vol. 2, edited by Siegbert Uhlig, 855-856. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
- ^Haberland, Eike. 1986. Three Hundred Years of Ethiopian-German Academic Collaboration. Frankfurt, Germany: Frobenius Institute, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and Steiner.
- ^Flemming, Johannes. 1890-1891. "Hiob Ludolf: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der orientalischen Philologie." Beiträge zur Assyriologie und vergleichenden semitischen Sprachwissenschaft I, II:537-582; 63-110.
- ^abSmidt, Wolbert G.C. (2015)."Gorgoryos and Ludolf: The Ethiopian and German Fore-Fathers of Ethiopian Studies: An Ethiopian scholar's 1652 visit to Thuringia"(PDF).ITYOP̣IS: Northeast African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2016-08-10.
- ^Uhlig, Siegbert (Jan 1986). "Hiob Ludolfs 'Theologica aethiopica'".Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.49:394.doi:10.1017/s0041977x00024332.
- ^Ludolf, Hiob. 1682.A New History of Ethiopia. Being a Full and Accurate Description of the Kingdom of Abessinia, Vulgarly, Though Erroneously Called the Empire of Prester John.Translated by J. P. Gent. London: Samuel Smith Booksellers.
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